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Grant number: | 09/12135-2 |
Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
Effective date (Start): | March 01, 2010 |
Effective date (End): | May 31, 2012 |
Field of knowledge: | Biological Sciences - Morphology - Cytology and Cell Biology |
Principal Investigator: | Silvya Stuchi Maria-Engler |
Grantee: | Raquel Brandão Haga |
Host Institution: | Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas (FCF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Abstract Gliomas are highly invasive, treatment-resistant and lethal tumors. Overexpression of RECK in human glioma cell line T98G decreased cell migration and invasion in vitro, lead to cytoskeleton rearrangement and caused changes in phospho-FAK distribution. However, the pathway involved in RECK-mediated inhibition of cell migration has not been elucidated yet. To study the mechanisms by which RECK affects cell motility, T98G cells were transfected with pCXN2-hRECK vector (RECK+). Some proteins involved in the integrin pathway, activity of some proteins of RhoGTPase family and cytoskeleton proteins were analyzed through immunoblotting, immunostaining and pull-down assay in RECK+ cells and compared with non-transfected T98G cells, T98G transfected with pCXN2 without RECK gene and human primary fibroblasts (FF287). Our results showed an increase in integrin ²1 expression and a decrease in FAK phosphorylation in the Tyr397 site, which together with the increase of stress fibers and decrease of lamellipodia, suggest a less migratory phenotype. Despite this, Rac1 activity was increased even though one of Rac activation pathways is through phospho-FAK, leading to lamellipodium formation. Our hypotheses is that RECK affects focal adhesion turnover, diminishing cell motility. As cells are still receiving a positive signal to migrate, they activate Rac1 through a FAK-independent pathway. Besides that, paxillin immunostaining showed that focal adhesions are larger in RECK+ cells, indicating that RECK can influence structures related with cell-matrix contact. | |
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